Catalogue description Newburn Urban District Council

Council and Committees

Signed minutes

UD/Nb/1/1-54 Council, 1893 - 1974

From July 1960 minutes of the following committees are included; Finance and Rating, General Purposes, Golf Course, Health and Social Services, Housing, Joint Consultative, Library, Management Services and Parks and Recreation.

(54 volumes)

UD/Nb/2/1-2 All Purposes Committee, 1938 - 1945

(1 volume, 1 file)

UD/Nb/3 Allotments Committee, 1916 - 1960

(1 volume)

UD/Nb/4 Civil Defence and Emergency Committee, 1942 - 1955

(1 volume)

UD/Nb/5/1-10 Finance Committee, 1909 - 1961

(10 volumes)

UD/Nb/6 Fire Brigade and Air Raid Precaution Committee, 1937 - 1941

(1 volume)

UD/Nb/7/1-4 General Purposes Committee, 1934 - 1961

(4 volumes)

UD/Nb/8 Golf Club Committee, 1940- 1941

(1 volume)

UD/Nb/9/1-9 Housing Committee, 1912 - 1961

(9 volumes)

UD/Nb/10 Library Committee, 1946 - 1960

(1 file)

UD/Nb/11/1-2 Maternity and Child Welfare Committee, 1919 - 1948

(2 volumes)

UD/Nb/12 Parks and Recreation Committee, 1955 - 1961

(1 volume)

UD/Nb/13 Rating Committee, 1926 - 1935

(1 volume)

UD/Nb/14/1-8 Social Services Committee, 1912 - 1961

(8 volumes)

UD/Nb/15 Transport and Licensing Committee, 1927 - 1935

(1 volume)

UD/Nb/16/1-11 Works Committee, 1912 - 1961

(11 volumes)

UD/Nb/17 Special Committees, 1921 - 1941 includes:

1 Rates of pay, 1921

2 Higher education evening classes, 1922

3 Rearrangement of U.D wards, 1923

4 Work and health, 1930

5 Royal Commission re Local Government in Tyneside, 1935 - 1936

6 Social and Industrial survey of Newburn 1937 - 1939

7 Overcrowding, 1938

8 golf course, 1939 - 1940

9 air raid shelters, 1940

10 emergency, 1939 - 1941 (1 volume)

UD/Nb/18/1-8 Sub Committees

1 Ambulance service, 1943 - 1945 (1 file)

2 British Restaurant, 1943 - 1944 (1 file)

3 Civil Defence and Emergency, 1945 (1 file)

4 District Heating, 1946 - 1947 (1 file)

5 Establishment, 1954 (1 file)

6 Golf Club, 1947 - 1961 (1 file)

7 Gradings, 1943 (1 file)

8 Holidays at Home, 1943 (1 file)

Council

UD/Nb/19/1-6 Seal books, 1926 - 1973 (6 volumes)

Administration

UD/Nb/20/1-61 Correspondence files, 1919 - 1968 (61 files)

UD/Nb/21 Byelaws and Regulations, 1893 - 1928 (1 volume)

UD/Nb/22 Photograph of Newburn fire engine, c. 1911 (1 black and white print)

UD/Nb/23 Lemington Cemetery Superintendents reports to Cemetery Committee, 1907 - 1933 (1 volume)

UD/Nb/24 NUMBER NOT USED

UD/Nb/25/1-14 Contract; Quarterly Journal of Newburn UDC, 1971 - 1974 (14 booklets)

Finance

UD/Nb/26/1-28 General ledgers, 1894 - 1970 (28 volumes)

UD/Nb/27/1-5 Account ledgers, 1906 - 1931 (5 volumes)

UD/Nb/28/1-5 Housing Account ledgers, 1920 - 1967 (5 volumes)

UD/Nb/29 Housing Account Consolidation ledger, 1929 - 1936 (1 volume)

UD/Nb/30/1-2 Public Works Loan Board accounts ledger, 1931 - 1949 (2 volumes)

UD/Nb/31/1-4 Loan accounts ledgers, 1928 - 1968 (4 volumes)

UD/Nb/32/1-5 Financial statements, 1896 - 1971 (2 volumes, 2 files, 2 booklets)

UD/Nb/33/1-16 Rate books (all Urban District), 1913, 1914, 1919, 1921, 1936, 1938, 1941, 1945, 1951, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1971 (16 volumes)

UD/Nb/34/1-3 Salary ledgers, (Town Hall staff), 1931 - 1956 (3 volumes)

Public Health Department

UD/Nb/35/1-14 Medical Officer of Health annual reports, 1893 - 1936, 1946 - 1964 (4 volumes, 10 booklets)

UD/Nb/36 Medical Officer of Health special reports re local environmental conditions, 1893 - 1899 (1 volume)

UD/Nb/37 Maternity and Child Welfare, 1943 - 1944 (1 file)

UD/Nb/38/1-4 Health Inspectors 'day-books' of complaints and action taken, 1946 - 1968 (4 volumes)

UD/Nb/39/1-23 Overcrowding survey; enumerators survey records of all properties within the urban district which were overcrowded, 1936 (23 volumes)

UD/Nb/40/1-36 Slum clearance orders (made under Housing Acts, 1930, 1936), 1933 - 1945 (36 files)

UD/Nb/41 Register of Council owned dwellings; type, year of construction and permitted number of occupants, 1959 (1 volume)

UD/Nb/42 Quarterly statements of tuberculosis cases, 1950 - 1958 (1 volume)

UD/Nb/43 Minutes, Newburn and Castle Ward Tuberculosis After-Care Sub-Committee, 1953 - 1955 (1 file)

Engineers and Surveyors

UD/Nb/44/1-5 Building and street plans registers, 1889 - 1974

Include plans approved by Castle Ward Rural Sanitary Authority, 1889 - 1892.

To locate the relevant property plan(s) it is necessary to use the above registers. (5 volumes)

UD/Nb/45/1A-63A Plans of properties approved or not approved to be built or altered by Castle Ward Rural Sanitary Authority. To find the relevant plan number(s) please use the above register UD/NB/44/1. (63 plans)

UD/Nb/46/2-11361 Plans of properties approved or not approved to be built or altered or other by Newburn Urban District Council. To find the relevant plan number(s) please use the above registers, UD/Nb/44/2-5, 1893 - 1974 (11360 plans)

UD/Nb/47 Public and private Improvement plans register, c.1898 - 1900

Indexed general plans series. This is an incomplete series of plans. To find relevant plan number(s) use the registers. Relevant plans can be found under UD/Nb/65/1-239. (1 volume)

UD/Nb/48/1-2 Standard specifications for roads, sewers, streets and structures, 1969 - 1970 (2 booklets)

UD/Nb/49 Bills of Quantities for aged persons flats at Newburn, 1968 (1 booklet)

UD/Nb/50 Maintenance orders for central heating system at aged persons flats, Newburn, c. 1970 (1 booklet)

UD/Nb/51 Building work progress chart for aged persons flats, Throckley, 1973 (1 paper)

UD/Nb/52/1-2 Minutes of site meetings at Denton Park Shopping Centre, 1967 - 1971 (2 files)

UD/Nb/53 Quotation for phase V of Leazes Estate, Coach Road, Throckley, and specification for modernisation of 19 Rokeby Avenue, 1970 (1 file)

UD/Nb/54 Minutes of site meeting at Union Hall housing scheme, Lemington, 1966 - 1967 (1 file)

UD/Nb/55/1-2 Bills of quantities for houses and bungalows on Union Hall housing scheme, 1967 (2 booklets)

UD/Nb/56 Correspondence with Dorran (Northern) Ltd., Consett, re foundation work on Union Hall housing scheme, 1966 - 1967 (1 file)

UD/Nb/57 Gregory Traditional Housing (types), [trade information], 1967 (1 booklet)

UD/Nb/58 Schedule, copy correspondence re building of Westerhope Childrens Home, 1968 - 1971 (1 file)

UD/Nb/59 Minutes of site meetings at West Denton Central Library and Swimming Baths complex, 1969 - 1970 (1 file)

UD/Nb/60/1-2 Bills of quantities for West Denton Central Library and Swimming Baths complex, 1966 - 1967 (2 volumes)

UD/Nb/61/1-2 Specifications for steelwork and heating/hot water supply, for West Denton Central Library and Swimming Baths complex, 1967 (1 file, 1 booklet)

UD/Nb/62 Costs of electrical services for West Denton Central Library and Swimming Baths complex, 1967 (1 file)

UD/Nb/63 Architects instructions to contractors working on the West Denton Central Library and Swimming Baths complex, 1967 - 1969 (1 file)

UD/Nb/64 Papers re repairs to 15 Bankhead Road, Walbottle, (Council owned smallholding) 1972 (1 file)

UD/Nb/65/1-239 General plan series. For the index to these plans see UD/Nb/47, c1898 - 1900 (239 plans)

UD/Nb/65/240-857 General plan series. Plans which have no index reference numbers by which they can be identified, although they are part of the same series, 1893 - 1972 (618 plans)

UD/Nb/66/1-6 Town and Country Planning registers, 1948 - 1974.

The 1932 Town and County Planning Act enlarged the scope of planning legislation to include county areas as well as urban land in course of development or likely to be built upon, and gave County Councils power to participate in the planning of their counties. Such a Joint Planning Committee was set-up in Northumberland in 1939. However it was not until July 1948 that the County Council became the local planning authority for the whole county by virtue of the Town and County Planning Act, 1947.

The County Planning Committee delegated certain control development functions to County District Councils, such as Newburn.

The building control functions of the district councils remained unaffected by the 1947 Act, however, there would appear to be numerous instances of duplication of planning applications; therefore plans relating to applications to build or alter properties, not involving large scale development, may be found in the building control registers and plans series. Plans of large scale development applications are preserved at the Northumberland Record Office, Melton Park, Newcastle, but copies are mostly available with the general plans series UD/Nb/65. (6 volumes)

Newburn Urban District Council

• Sports facilities
• Urban planning
• Public transport
• Health policy
• Housing policy
• Social welfare

The Local Government Board Confirming Order for the conversion of part of the large Northumberland Rural District of Castle Ward into Newburn Local Board, comprising East and West Denton, Lemington, Newburn, Sugley, Throckley, Walbottle and Westerhope was signed on 2 March 1893.

The Urban District was created the following year. The Urban District Council was represented on Gosforth, Newburn and Castle Ward Joint Hospital Committee from 1903 to 1939 and from 1939 until 1948 on the West Northumberland Joint Hospital Board. The Council administered the Isolation Hospital at Lemington.

Until 1929 Newburn UDC was part of Castle Ward Poor Law Union and as such oversaw the assessment and collection of the poor-rates for residents in the parishes of Newburn, East Denton, Lemington and Sugley.

Between 1894 and 1974 Newburn UDC was responsible for approving planning applications within its area.

In 1974 the Local Government Act merged Newburn with the City of Newcastle upon Tyne.